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Appearing in Parliament yesterday, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero managed to avoid responding to any of the direct questions that had been tabled. These included questions about what undertakings he had given the Basque terror organization Eta. He also took apart a statement from Partido Popular leader Mariano Rajoy over a member of the Government who would respond as to whether there had been ‘any undertakings given at all’. He limited his responses to a request that he be left in peace, and that before the end of the month, he would make a statement about Eta. He also refused to comment on any allegations that members of the security forces tipped Eta members off prior =to some judicial action being taken against them, which has been termed by PP Spokesman Eduardo Zaplana as ‘extremely serious’. Meanwhile, it has been revealed that the first meeting between the Spanish Prime Minister and members of Eta is set to take place in an hotel on the outskirts of Oslo next month.
It was last summer when state broadcaster RTVE began a series of broadcasts called “The Summer Of Your Life” that was a series of nine shows broadcast on every Thursday night in July and August. The series was co produced by RTVE and the Marina d’Or Group, and records show that the Group spent over a million Euros on the promotion that involved showing off what Marina d’Or had on offer in Oropesa del Mar in Castellon Province. However, it is precisely this ‘second objective’ by the group of undertaking thinly disguised publicity throughout the nine shows that could land RTVE in hot water as it has been declared as ‘subliminal; publicity that in fact goes against an internal document dating from 2001 that prevents this kind of activity from being undertaken. A spokesman for Marina d’Or would only say that the group had signed a publicity agreement and did not believe that any irregularity had been committed
A robbery in Alicante that started with two brothers stealing a car ended in tragedy early yesterday morning. The pair had allegedly stolen a car in Alicante and then headed towards the Las Atalayas Industrial Estate, where they drove it into the front of the Saray Bar, causing all the alarms to sound. Once inside, the pair managed to force open the slot machines, and they made off with the takings as well as the cash from the main till and several bottles of alcohol. Back inside their stolen car, they then tried to head out of the Estate only to drive down a cul-de-sac. Turning their car round, crashing into several parked vehicles in the process, they came face to face with a 4 x 4 driven by two members of the security patrol of the estate. Both the security guards and the thieves got out of their respective cars and an onslaught took place resulting in one of the men taking an extinguisher from the 4 x 4 and spraying the guards, who replied with shots from their weapons, wounding one man in the leg , who pulled his fatally injured brother into the security Guards’ vehicle and trying to get away, only managing to crash into a traffic light a short distance away. By that time, one of the attackers lay dead in the car. The National Police have launched a full investigation into the incident.
Scientists from Valencia University, who were undertaking what hopefully was a routine inspection of the waters of the Gulf of Valencia, have made an unpleasant discovery: millions of jellyfish larva. Currently, they are only 3mm in size and are in their embryonic stage, which in fact impedes their being classified as to species. A spokesman for the University stated that it is ‘by no means certain’ that they could become dangerous to bathers. Whilst others have stated that the discovery offers a unique opportunity to observe the development process of the species.
It would appear that the incoming Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is set on revising a deal forged last January with Russia over gas supplies. In a statement to the Kiev Parliament, she stated: “I think that all gas supplies to the Ukraine now require deep revision and review.” However, sources in Moscow stated that such an action could create a far wider energy crisis. Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov: “Realization of the threats voiced today could well pave the way to a new gas crisis.”
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Seven people have been arrested in Florida – five of them US citizens – as the FBI alleged they planned to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago and other prominent US buildings. According to law enforcement insiders, the group represented a home-grown threat to the country that United States officials have been dreading ever since the July bombings in London last year.
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The United States has found some five hundred chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be discovered according to Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. He called a press conference to reveal this after he obtained a declassified portion of a report by the national Ground Intelligence Center, an intelligence unit operating inside the Defense department.
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